The cheater is now proven to have violated election laws, but his supporters are unlikely to care.

The cheater's brazenly increasing broad disrespect for standards of ethics and legality has trained his supporters not to care about those standards any more.

Global heating deniers are still spreading falsehoods on Facebook.

I see danger in deleting false claims about history (including denial of the holocaust) and false claims about physics (including denial of global heating). However, Facebook could legitimately mark them as "bogus" and provide links to corrective information.

I suspect that the denialist funding, which corrupts politicians and institutions, is the core of the problem.

The US is pressuring Turkey to release one political prisoner who is an American Christian preacher.

The idea that a Christian foreigner collaborated with Gülen, an Islamist, in a supposed coup plot is absurd. But then again, we never saw proof that Gülen himself was involved in the coup plot.

The preacher's release would be a step forward, but we shouldn't forget the thousands of Turks that are political prisoners in Turkey.

Florida's "stand your ground" law is not as loose as it is presented. It covers only people that kill based on a reasonable belief that they are in danger. To kill based on an unreasonable belief is still a crime.

Notwithstanding that, I still think it is better not to have such a law. If you face a real threat, and you can protect yourself by moving away or by shooting someone, I think it is valid for the law to say that you ought to move away rather than shoot.

Álvaro Uribe, the former president of Colombia who I referred to as el presidente horrible, is being investigated for bribing and intimidating witnesses.

He was closely associated with the paramilitares, right-wing state-supported terrorists that plagued Colombia then and still plague it now.